15 Reasons Why Tiggr Deserves Your Attention

Tiggr is a Web-based IDE for building mobile Web and
native apps. Today I’d like to give you 15 reasons why this
one-of-a-kind IDE deserves your attention.

1. Mobile Apps IDE in the Cloud – Access Your App
Anytime, Anywhere

Tiggr is a mobile apps IDE in the cloud. There
is nothing to download. You can work on your app anytime, anywhere.
Such a Web-based IDE has been every developer’s “dream” for a long
time.

2. Build
with jQuery Mobile Components

Prototype and build the UI with popular jQuery
Mobile components. jQuery Mobile is a cross-platform and
cross-device mobile framework. It has already been tested to work
on many, many devices and platforms, so you don’t have to do
it.

3. Visual
Editor

A powerful and easy-to-use visual editor. Just
drag and drop the components on to the phone image. You finally get
a visual editor where design-time looks exactly the same as
run-time. Try it.

4.
Connect to Remote Services

A mobile app without
data is not much fun. That’s why you can easily define services
(REST/JSON and soon XML). Specify service inputs and outputs, and
test the service right inside
Tiggr.

5. Visual
Mapping Between UI and Services

A service may require inputs and always
returns data. Tiggr comes with a super easy way to map input UI
components to service inputs and outputs.

6. Test the App Instantly – Yes, Right in
Browser

We know that once you drag and drop your first
components into the phone you will want to see how the app looks.
The app can be instantly tested in the desktop browser or mobile
browser. To make it easy to open the app URL on your mobile device
you can email the app link or scan a QR code. Need to test a native
app on a mobile device? No problem. Export the app as Android
binary (.apk) file (or soon as an iOS binary).

7. Mobile
Web vs. Native Apps – Who Cares?

Tiggr makes this
argument moot. With Tiggr, you can just as easily create mobile Web
applications using all the latest HTML5/JavaScript/CSS umbrella
technologies as you can create native apps. To generate native
apps, Tiggr uses the popular PhoneGap library to give you an app
for any device. PhoneGap wraps your HTML/JavaScript/CSS app inside
a native wrapper giving you easy access to the underlying mobile
platform for services such as GPS, camera, contacts, or whatever
else is available via the native
platform.

8. Share Your App

Need to show your mobile Web app to your boss,
colleagues, or customer? No problem! Invite them as project
participants, or just make the app URL public and send them the
URL.

9.
Collaborate

We understand that many projects today are
done by remote teams. That’s why we made it possible to invite any
number of users to collaborate during the development of the
app.

10.
Chat

With the built-in chat, you can communicate
with any of your team members while working on a project without
leaving Tiggr.

11. Easily Add Events and
Actions

Without any need for JavaScript programming,
you can add events such as onclick and onload to various UI
components and then define actions for these events such as
navigation, opening a pop-up panel, or invoking a service. With
events and actions, you are able to simply create real interactive
mobile apps.

12. We Know You Love
JavaScript

But wait. We know you actually love
JavaScript. With Tiggr, you have the full freedom to extend the
capabilities of your app by adding any custom JavaScript you
want.

13. Themes

Create and test new themes instantly. Tiggr
comes with a visual theme editor in which you can test and view
changes instantly.

14. Export

We understand that you
may want to continue developing the project outside Tiggr. That’s
why we have export features. Today, you can export the project as
an Android PhoneGap source project or an Android binary debug
(.apk) file. For the future, we are working on an iOS project and
also an Android binary ready for Android Market
publishing.

15. It’s Easy, Fast, an
Fun

Building a mobile app with Tiggr will take a
fraction of the time it would take you to do the same thing by
hand. Being able to instantly test your app is one of the coolest
features. You will be using it all the time. If you don’t believe
us, [register, http://gotiggr.com] and just try one of our
step-by-step tutorials:
http://help.gotiggr.com/getting-started.

Max Katz heads Developer Relations for Appery.io, a cloud-based mobile app platform. He loves trying out new and cool REST APIs in mobile apps. Max is the author of two books “Practical RichFaces”, and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences.